What inspires us: Architecture
The ideas that have grabbed our attention today

Masion Martin Margiela creates a surreal space within reality. If I could turn my dream fashion into interiors and if I could turn my dream interiors into fashion and he does it all too well.

http://www.lamaisonchampselysees.com/

Aēsop has opened a new store in Nolita. Designed by local architect Jeremy Barbour, he adopted the same solution as when he created Aēsop’s Grand Central Station kiosk, constructing the wall displays and counter out of re-purposed editions of the New York Times. The material, layered to form what look like large paper bricks, gives the space unprecedented texture, creating a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Beyond the visual component, the soft, weathered feel of it compliments the product line nicely, as well as grounding it within the city and community. In a nod to Aēsop’s appreciation of the arts, the store will screen Criterion Films on the paper walls, so customers can enjoy world-class cinema projected over years of the written word.

Thursday, September 29th 2011 marks the opening of the second installation by BOFFO Building Fashion with the two week opening of Irene Neuwrith + Marc Fornes /THEVERYMANY.

http://www.boffo-ny.org/

Comme des garcons to open experimental concept space called Trading Museum this Friday during Paris fashion week. This event will also launch their new fragrance which boasts notes of industrial glue and brown scotch tape.

New Rei Kawakubo Concept to Host Fragrance Launch

Nicola Formichetti and Gage/Clemenceau architects have debuted this year’s Boffo Building Architecture in NYC.

Boffo

I am excited to see what comes out of this great idea!

The Renderings for the Delancey Underground Park on the Lower East Side — New York Magazine.

U B U W E B — Film & Video — Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century (1994).

Great documentary on the Bauhaus. Also, check out the Ubuweb site. Lots of interesting work on it.

The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar in 1919, was largely responsible for revolutionizing the structure of art school tuition, and its basic tenets of design are now a modern commonplace. This documentary covers the full range of the work of the Bauhaus, which encompassed architecture, design and disciplines as varied as pottery, weaving, theatre and ballet. It also appraises the effect that the Bauhaus’s revolutionary method of workshop instruction had on the creativity of the students. The film brings together thought-provoking comment from architects, teachers, ex-students and current experts on the Bauhaus, and includes amusing anecdotes and vintage footage of the work of its founding members.

Philip Johnson … Himself
Walter Gropius … Himself (archive footage)
Wassily Kandinsky … Himself (archive footage) (as Vasily Kandisky)
Gerhardt Marx … Himself (archive footage)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe … Himself — architect (archive footage)
Michael Siebenbrodt … Himself — Weiman Bauhaus
Kurt Kranz … Himself — former Bauhaus student
Peter Hahn … Himself — Bauhaus Archives
George Adams … Himself — Bauhaus student
Frank Whitford … Narrator (voice)
Charles Jencks … Himself — art historian
Christopher Frayling … Himself — Royal College of Art
Alec Armstrong … Himself — former Bauhaus student
Gillian Naylor … Herself — Royal College of Art
Frank Whitford … writer

Monsoon has just reopened their Oxford Street, London, location with a completely overhauled environment and branding by Pompei A.D.

I know brutalism is everyone’s favorite architectural movement to hate, but sometimes it can be so damn beautiful.

Micasa Volume B, São Paulo | We Heart: Essential Lifestyle Guide.

Decker Yeadon are prototyping a system of exterior shades that expand with the heat of the sun.

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Mighty Building Façade Beats Solar Heat With Mechanical Muscles | Co.Design.